My Hero Academia

If it's an Iida arc, I'd like some followup on Tensei's condition. What's he doing nowadays?

Don't get snippy with me; he hasn't been in focus for for over three years now.

Hey, Iida did his best in the Joint Training, he's got my respect for that.

I'm still trying to put my finger on what my problem with the League is.

I definitely enjoy them as characters, but I'm not sure if I've fully embraced them as antagonists. If that makes any sense?

I think... they almost feel TOO rag tag. They're a bunch of misfits and that's where a lot of their appeal comes from, but they're also ramshackle to the point where I struggle to buy them having the reach and authority that they're reported to. Other than Tomura and Mr Compress, they feel like they're powerful because they're important characters, rather than being strong because it feels natural for the story. I'm still not sure how Toga is skilled enough to go toe to toe with pro heroes. And I certainly don't find them believable as administrators of a massive nationwide organization.

Tomura absorbing Re-Destro and the top brass of the MLA along with their troops is an attempt to mitigate this, but I'm still supposed to see Toga and Twice as top ranking officials in this group. Which.. feels wrong. It's not a matter of it making logical sense, it's more of an aesthetic offness that keeps me from fully accepting them in their intended roles.

Edited by GNinja on Dec 10th 2019 at 2:38:07 PM

I wouldn't think too hard about the color page. Last one was Uraraka at the beginning of the Cultural Festival arc.

Also, it seems it's been so long that Horikoshi forgot he used to format them as comic books covers.

Edited by WashTheLaundryHero on Dec 10th 2019 at 6:32:35 AM

That might be because they never intended or were supposed to be that. They sorta are now, but that was just due to circumstance rather than intentional attempt.

Plus, Twice has gotten better control of his powers, and Toga can now counter any quirk regardless of how strong it is....okay that's not exactly true but she's definitely going to improve here on out.

Not to mention that they are the ones who get to decide who's going to work beneath them, so they can keep the number of people down to a manageable number in the single-digits if they so like.

I can see Toga keeping a small squad around to keep "interlopers" from interfering when she spend some "quality time" with a "loved one" for example.

And Twice can keep at least one person around him at all times to keep providing reminders that he's "not" a clone when time comes to unleash the "Poor Man's Parade" upon the heroes again...(And some people to copy into a elite squad to boost up the forces without exposing any of the leaders for exposure through using their clones and quirks in public.)

(I hope there's at least some qualified psychiatrist in the MLA that can at least begin help Twice with his issues in the long run due to...well...that poor man really needs one.)

I guess the League comes off as a bit too dysfunctional to some people.

The fact that they have no greater plan or ambition beyond just messing shit up, can run people the wrong way

Let's be real though, it's almost certainly the ex-Liberation Army leadership who micromanages the more boring tasks in the PLF, with the League members (possibly Compress aside, as he seems sane and reasonable enough to help with basic administration) there probably to give their perspective on things and ensure Shiggy's faction is in charge. I can't see Toga, Twice or Dabi doing much office work or numbers crunching.

I mean isn't that the point: like the heroes, they're still developing and improving.

I still wanna know how anyone in Class 1-A can beat Shigaraki's decay evolution.

Uraraka touching Shigaraki, sending him up high into the air where he can't touch anything, either buying the others time to create a strategy or go for the subduing herself by letting him float so high that he enters a height where he either suffocate or freeze to the point he loses consciousness (but not dying).

Only way he would escape from that by himself, would be if he could decay "air", the effects of other people's quirks affecting him, or concept like "Anti-gravity" itself, in order to keep himself from getting sent up.

Just a suggestion.

Had he his Quirk back, there's not a lot Shigaraki could do against Mirio.

I don't think the discussion was about their strenght.

For what is worth, it was mentioned it was Re-Destro and Spinner that came up with the new name, so maybe those two are the ones doing most of the work. Re-Destro because he was in charge before and Spinner because he takes the whole thing very seriously.

Edited by WashTheLaundryHero on Dec 10th 2019 at 10:04:52 AM

Not to mention being the representative of a group in society that's still getting discriminated in certain circles at large.

The whole arrangement might actually fit Spinner surprisingly well, considering how engaged he can get with something once he puts his mind into it (Stain as a start...)

The League is a handful of people, the MLA had 100 000 members. It's almost certainly the case that the Generals simply act as a control mechanism for the League. Toga may have little idea of how to manage a group, but the MLA knows. She doesn't have to specify everything, she could simply explain what she wants to an MLA member that knows their stuff.

Besides, it's not just that the MLA has resources but also the means to teach the League how to be better leaders.

I hope that after the 4 months have passed when we see the league in action again, the top members of the League carry themselves a bit differently. I don't want their personalities to fundamentally change or anything, but I think they should start to feel more natural giving coherant orders to their underlings, and give off the aura of being leaders.

Right now, they feel like if the students of UA were to suddenly take over the top hero agencies in japan as they are currently. It's a bit too much of a leap. They parralel the hero's arc of developing and getting stronger, but despite his improvements you aren't going to see Todoroki take over Endeavour's agency with Endeavour as his subordinate. At least not for a long time.

Edited by GNinja on Dec 10th 2019 at 10:54:01 AM

"Decaying" air wouldn't help him. It'd be liable to increase the buoyant force he experienced by increasing the number of gas particles. That said, Uraraka does need a source of thrust in order to sky people quickly.

Toga managed to sky Curious pretty quickly

What does sky mean in this regard?

I guess "make her float high enough that the following fall was fatal".

Actually during the entrance exam she was just touching the robots and they started floating of their own volition. Probably them being rubber-banded now that gravity isn't affecting them, but they were rising a little slow for that.

Granted the laws of physics kind of get fucked when she floats things. Deku should have been reduced to a floating puddle of chunky salsa given how fast he stopped.

I think the best way to describe it is that she cancels gravity but also any effects currently on the target that are caused by gravity.

I've seen it phrased that she can cancel mass as well as weight, since she can lift super big things really easily.

She did turn a pillar into a baseball bat.